Sigmund Freud and Leonardo da Vincy on Psychobiography

Quite often psychobiography is dated as start with Freud’s Leonardo da Vinci and memory of his childhood (1910/1957). (Schultz, p. 23)All of this was lead o by Freud’s work on the â€Å"Delusions and Dreams† that was founded in Jensen’s novel titled â€Å"Gradiva†. (Schultz, p. 23) Beginning approximately four months after Freud’s â€Å"Delusions and Dreams† was published in 1907; Freud had decided to take a well needed trip to Rome. (Valedictorian) While in Rome Freud saw the sculpture (basso-relievo) that represented â€Å"Gradiva† on display at their museum called â€Å"The Museum of the Vatican†. (Valedictorian) Freud then purchased his own personal copy of the basso-relievo. (Valedictorian) Freud did this as others such as the author Wilhelm Jensen and the fictional Norbert had done previously before him. (Valedictorian) Freud had this great idea to hang this item, which is to be remembered, in his office that happen ed to be located in Vienna. (Valedictorian)This sculpture stayed in his office until he left Vienna and took it with him to London in 1938. (Valedictorian) Freud’s most vital analysis of the dreams in Wilhelm Jensen’s â€Å" Gadiva† as well as his own work titled â€Å" Delusions and Dreams†, Freud clearly states that the fictional Norbert Hanold’s, is the protagonist and that the dreams stem from the delusions that were a result of the repressed memories returning to his conscious. (Valedictorian) His â€Å"fancies† had been made and thus the repressed memories that had returned had been